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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Princeton University Study: Earth’s Wobble Promotes Life!

A motorcyclist’s worst nightmare is a high-speed
wobble. A slight wobble is correctable; however, a high-speed wobble works like
a gyroscope, forcing a crash. Just like you can’t fight a gyroscope, most of us
are trained to never fight the wobble, for you will fight it to a more tragic ending.
Instead, ride it like a wave and lay the bike down gently.

Recently, scientists from Princeton University
discovered that the earth’s high-speed wobble has a beneficial effect: It’s
like a dinner bell for microorganisms. Our earth’s wobble closely mirrors oceanic
nitrogen-fixing microorganisms, causing times of decreased food supply and
increased food supply. It’s like HaShem
has designed feeding times into the cycles of the earth.

You can argue for Big Bang, Global Warming, Evolution
and Santa Claus; however, our cosmos is too cool to have occurred by accident.
A positive effect from the earth’s wobble is one more reason why I want HaShem
driving my car, and not Carl Sagan. (Oh, Carl Sagan is dead? HaShem doesn’t
slumber or even use the rest room.)

The cyclic wobble of the Earth on its axis controls
the production of a nutrient essential to the health of the ocean, according to
a new study in the journal Nature. The discovery of factors that control this
nutrient, known as "fixed" nitrogen, gives researchers insight into
how the ocean regulates its own life-support system, which in turn affects the
Earth's climate and the size of marine fisheries.

Researchers from Princeton University and the Swiss
Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) report that during the past 160,000
years nitrogen fixation rose and fell in a pattern that closely matched the
changing orientation of Earth's axis of rotation, or axial precession. Axial
precession occurs on a cycle of roughly 26,000 years and arises because the
Earth wobbles slightly as it rotates, similar to the wobble of a toy top.
Studies from the 1980s revealed that precession leads to a regular upwelling of
deep water in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean roughly every 23,000 years. The
upwelling in turn brings nitrogen-poor water to the surface where blue-green
algae convert nitrogen drawn from the air into a form that is biologically
usable...